Jackson, officially the City of Jackson, is the capital of and the most populous city in the U.S. state of Mississippi. The city is also one of two county seats of Hinds County, along with Raymond. The city had a population of 153,701 at the 2020 census, down from 173,514 at the 2010 census. Jacksons population declined more between 2010 and 2020 (11.42%) than any major city in the United States. Jackson is the anchor for the Jackson metropolitan statistical area, the largest metropolitan area completely within the state. With a 2020 population estimated around 600,000, metropolitan Jackson is home to over one-fifth of Mississippis population. The city sits on the Pearl River and is located in the greater Jackson Prairie region of Mississippi.
Founded in 1821 as the site for a new state capital, the city is named after General Andrew Jackson, who was honored for his role in the Battle of New Orleans during the War of 1812 and later served as U.S. president. Following the nearby Battle of Vicksburg in 1863 during the American Civil War, Union forces under the command of General William Tecumseh Sherman began the siege of Jackson and the city was subsequently burned.During the 1920s, Jackson surpassed Meridian to become the most populous city in the state following a speculative natural gas boom in the region. The current slogan for the city is The City with Soul. It has had numerous musicians prominent in blues, gospel, folk, and jazz. The city is located in the deep south halfway between Memphis and New Orleans on Interstate 55 and Dallas and Atlanta on Interstate 20. Being at this location has given the city the nickname the crossroads of the south.
The city has a number of museums and cultural institutions, including the Mississippi Childrens Museum, Mississippi Museum of Natural Science, Mississippi Civil Rights Museum, Mississippi Museum of Art, Old Capital Museum, Museum of Mississippi History. Other notable locations are the Mississippi Coliseum and the Mississippi Veterans Memorial Stadium, home of the Jackson State Tigers Football Team.
The Jackson metropolitan statistical area is the states second largest metropolitan area overall, due to four counties in northern Mississippi being part of the Memphis, Tennessee metropolitan area. In 2020, the Jackson metropolitan area held a GDP of 30 billion dollars, accounting for 29% of the states total GDP of 104.1 billion dollars.
Opacity
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The state of being opaque; the quality of a body which
renders it impervious to the rays of light; want of transparency;
opaqueness.
Opacity meaning & definition 1 of Opacity.
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Opacity (pronounced o-pass-ity, not o-pace-ity) describes how opaque an object is. While it is not specific to computer terminology, the term is often used in computer graphics software. For example, many programs include an Opacity setting that allows you to adjust the transparency of an image.
To understand opacity, it is important understand what opaque means. An opaque object is completely impervious to light, which means you cannot see through it. For example, a car door is completely opaque. The window above the door, however, is not opaque, since you can see through it. If the window is tinted, it is partially opaque and partially transparent. The less transparent the window is, the higher its opacity. In other words, transparency and opacity are inversely related.
Most digital images are 100% opaque. For example, if you open an image captured with a digital cameras, it will be completely opaque. However, you can use an image editing application to adjust the opacity of the image. This is especially useful when editing an image with multiple layers. For instance, Adobe Photoshop allows you to adjust the opacity for each layer from 0 to 100. 0 is completely transparent (or invisible), while 100 is completely opaque. By sliding the opacity of each layer somewhere in between 0 and 100, you can overlay multiple layers on top of each other, creating a multilayer image mosaic.
NOTE: When saving a semi-transparent image, it is important to save the file in a format that supports multiple levels of opacity. JPEG does not support transparency at all and GIF only supports fully transparent or fully opaque pixels. The PNG format is the best choice since it includes an alpha channel, which stores an opacity setting for each pixel.Opacity meaning & definition 2 of Opacity.
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the [freedom] to [veil] oneself [or something]
Opacity meaning & definition 3 of Opacity.
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The quality of lacking transparency or translucence.
Opacity meaning & definition 4 of Opacity.